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It's still nice to see the pictures …

That would be correct.

If it is a photoshop, it wasn't easy. If it isn't a photoshop, it wasn't easy.

@victorialynn2 says it better then I could. My thoughts exactly.

My uncle Peter worked for Malcolm Bricklin over many years, including the Yugo period. Later in life, he was part of a team that successfully drag-raced Yugos in bracket racing. They made the front page of the Wall Street Journal, in the human interest column: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB927584783349821184

It's hard to choose between these two pictures—lovely!

My apologies—for some reason this came up as current as I viewed AACA General.

The Mona Lisa is tiny against the insane crowds. A Duesenberg never has to deal with that.

Bingo.

Thank you @Ray62 — it's going for a lot more in some places. If I recall correctly, he self-published that book.

Agreed—I'm fighting that with my current project.

(relatively new SAH member—since 2019) How do you choose your next book topic? Does it just come to you, or does someone else (publisher?) suggest it? Is it a sense of where there might be untapped interest, or is it just something that really interests you?

Thank you—I'm (brutally) aware of all the generations. A short description of what I'm working on: https://j3studiopress.com/riviera-project/

O to have been the proverbial fly on the wall for that contest. Many references mention it, but there are few details—and even fewer that agree.

This is embarrassing—I actually have that book, but had not thought to see what it could offer on this part of the story. Thank you.

(mods moved this—Zack got his answer)

Thanks, folks—I told Zack he would find help here. He was hanging out in big bad AACA General …

I believe you'll get a lot of answers if you ask this question in the Buick Riviera-specific sub-forum here: https://forums.aaca.org/forum/73-buick-riviera/

I'm looking for background information on the origins of the 1961 Starfire. In other words, why was the decision made to bring it to production, who made that decision, who designed the concepts and prototypes, who were the target markets, etc. I'm working on a book about the Buick Riviera, and I see the Starfire as part of the first-generation Riviera's origin story. Though helpful in many areas about Oldsmobile, Early and Walkinshaw's Setting The Pace merely gives the what and the when about the Starfire. Are there other books or different references I should be looking at?

1981 … I'm still stunned he lived—in fact, he's still with us. The Bedard crash and seemingly endless flip in 1984 was the same but different—I was there, and I remain convinced that everyone at the speedway thought he was dead.

An online automobile magazine in Australia has posted yet another in-depth article on the origins of the 1963 Riviera: https://www.shannons.com.au/club/news/retroautos/design-to-driveway-buicks-1963-riviera/ —I'm beginning to think you could write a decent-sized book just covering the events between October 1957 (1958 Thunderbird announcement) and October 1962 (1963 Riviera introduction).

Lordy …

RIP, Dick. Ray, thank you for making us aware.

Lordy!

Don't want to ruffle any feathers, but that seems to be what happened.